· Private foundation
Rathert Foundation % the Peoples Bank
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k13 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,800 |
| BRIGHT BEGINNINNGS CHILD DEVELOPMEN | $9,000 |
| SMITH COUNTY FREE FAIR | $6,250 |
| UNITED CHURCH OF KENSINGTON | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,247 |
| KENSINGTON SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER | $4,380 |
| CITY OF SMITH CENTER | $4,200 |
| CITY OF LEBANON | $3,600 |
| SMITH COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SMITH CENTER RECREATION COMMISSION | $1,300 |
| US CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| LEBANON COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $949 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2026, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient9× · 2017–2025 · $61k
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2022–2026 · $46k
- WSWEST SMITH COUNTY RECREATION COMMIS4× · 2017–2025 · $30k
Funded once
- COCITY OF SMITH CENTER WATER WELL REHone grant, 2025 · $5k
- WSWEST SMITH COUNTY REC COMMISSIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SCSMITH COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +972% · 27% of their budget
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Smith County State Bank & Trust Co Charitable Trust · Bill & Julia Thomas Charitable Trust · Carrol & Darlene Booz Charitable Trust · Dane G Hansen Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rathert Foundation % the Peoples Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rathert Foundation % the Peoples Bank. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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